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Beyond Light: New Frontiers in the Oldest Science - Part 2
This century, astronomy will push beyond the confines of light and begin to detect new signals such as neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gravitational waves in multi-messenger astronomy
July 31, 2025
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Beyond Light: New Frontiers in the Oldest Science - Part 1
In the last post, we talked about astronomers pushing frontiers of knowledge. Gravitational waves represent perhaps the most peculiar frontier beyond light.
July 09, 2025
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Looking for Light from the Invisible
Several KIPAC members are running an experiment (LUX-ZEPLIN) almost a mile underground in South Dakota, looking for evidence of the invisible: dark matter!
February 27, 2025
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Resonating with Dark Matter with ADMX-VERA
The Universe has an invisible skeleton made of particles we can’t describe in our current theories, known only as dark matter.
December 13, 2024
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Single-electron Sensitive Readout / SiSeRO: A novel X-ray detector technology for future astronomy missions
X-ray astronomy unlocks a hidden universe of extreme events: from black holes and exploding stars to heated gas in galaxy clusters.
November 21, 2024
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October 30, 2024
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September 30, 2024
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July 11, 2024
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Spotting the Universe’s oldest light from the Atacama Desert
The Simons Observatory, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment which will soon begin to map this ancient light with exquisite precision
May 02, 2024
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March 21, 2024
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December 04, 2023
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July 06, 2023
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June 01, 2023
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February 19, 2021
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Latest measure of cosmic expansion hints that Universe is growing faster than expected
The universe is full of mysteries that are worthy of a few words of awe and joy.
March 01, 2017
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Detecting black hole gravitational atoms in the sky (with half-diamonds)
Atoms consist of nuclei and electrons; all have mass.
June 18, 2015